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CorsiHockeyLeague · 05-03-2018, 05:20 PM

I think Rubecube called someone racist earlier today for saying they didn't care about the Redskins' name thing, as if not having any particular concern about matters as trivial as the name of an NFL team could only be the result of an ingrained belief that first nations are inherently inferior as a race. But I don't remember where I saw that or who it was in particular.

The main thing is that there are certain people, yourself included I suppose, who adopt what some of us would consider an excessively broad view of the term "racist", because you recognize that it's a hugely damaging label to apply to someone, and given that it has that discrediting stigma, want to apply it more broadly to people you disagree with on fundamental political issues even if they don't meet the traditional meaning. If someone's tagged successfully as a racist, that's it - they have no further voice or credibility in any debate. Game, set, match, we don't have to hear them out or rebut them. In fact, even giving them the time of day indicates that you yourself must be a racist too, hence Sam Harris being listed on the SPLC's hate watch list for talking to Charles Murray a year ago. This is, incidentally, exactly what people were complaining Psycnet was trying to do by characterizing Peterson and those who support him as "alt right" even if they don't want any truck with Richard Spencer or anyone remotely similar to him.

It's just standard smear tactics, at the end of the day.

05-03-2018, 05:20 PM	#604
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	I think Rubecube called someone racist earlier today for saying they didn't care about the Redskins' name thing, as if not having any particular concern about matters as trivial as the name of an NFL team could only be the result of an ingrained belief that first nations are inherently inferior as a race. But I don't remember where I saw that or who it was in particular. The main thing is that there are certain people, yourself included I suppose, who adopt what some of us would consider an excessively broad view of the term "racist", because you recognize that it's a hugely damaging label to apply to someone, and given that it has that discrediting stigma, want to apply it more broadly to people you disagree with on fundamental political issues even if they don't meet the traditional meaning. If someone's tagged successfully as a racist, that's it - they have no further voice or credibility in any debate. Game, set, match, we don't have to hear them out or rebut them. In fact, even giving them the time of day indicates that you yourself must be a racist too, hence Sam Harris being listed on the SPLC's hate watch list for talking to Charles Murray a year ago. This is, incidentally, exactly what people were complaining Psycnet was trying to do by characterizing Peterson and those who support him as "alt right" even if they don't want any truck with Richard Spencer or anyone remotely similar to him. It's just standard smear tactics, at the end of the day. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 05-03-2018 at 05:22 PM.